Word: roam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before every period, Parent crosses himself with his stick. "I ask God to protect me and help the team," he says, adding with a grin, "but I never ask him to win a game." On the ice, Parent seeks security in other ways. Unlike some goalies who roam out in front of the net or behind it to feed the puck to teammates, Parent sticks close and admits his sense of security increases as he moves back toward the goal. "It's like a kid who goes to the woods with his father," he says. "As long...
...corporate headquarters is in a dilapidated, 19th century building in Trenton, where the state of New Jersey required him to move in 1971. "The rent is right," says Mosiello, as he sits in his modest "office" -cell 105, 3 Tier, 6 Wing Right, Trenton State Prison. While other cons roam idly through 6 Wing, struggling with the numbing daily routine inside what they grimly call "the Wall," time rushes by for Hank Mosiello, No. 50622, a convict entrepreneur who does not need to be free to be enterprising...
Sometimes she retreats to a sparse stone house north of Vancouver to paint, write and roam naked on the surrounding 40 acres with Art. It is not a relationship an earthling can easily crash, and Joni concedes that she will probably never marry. "My family consists of pieces of work that go out in the world," she smiles. "Instead of hanging around for 19 years they leave the nest early...
...years ago, city police covered East Cambridge and Roosevelt Towers in a rather haphazard way. On some nights several foot patrolmen would roam through the concrete courtyards of the three and four story buildings that make up the Towers, breaking up fights among youths and arresting vandals. On other nights there was a paucity of police protection at the Towers...
VOYEURS EN VOYANT, necrophiles, mystical wizards, and a comparatively sane alchemist--these are the creatures that roam Les Whitten's fantasy Washington after dark. Every night is Halloween, and playtime tricks and treats are almost as bizarre. But Watergate has rendered The Alchemist mysteriously reasonable, and, in the post-Nixon years, this strange novel seems just the sort of writing you'd expect from Jack Anderson's top aide--scandal-ridden, eerie, and oddly credible...